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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 770232" data-attributes="member: 1106">Turgenev, I think you misunderstand the angle I'm plying.  It wasn't meant as a dig at CoC or it's players....more calling a spade a spade.D&D is a player power trip on one level, if you want to be brutally honest - get the gold, get the magic items, get the kewl powerz, level up, go to the Abyss, hand Orcus's arse to him and then take his Wand home to use as a souvenir backscratcher.No skin off CoC's nose if, on a certain level of thinking, it's a GM power trip to have such a power imbalance in the destiny of the investigators that the mere sight of many of the creatures will drive them insane.You can't tell me that Keepers don't occasionally gloat over how powerful something like Azathoth is, or take a small amount of delight in how bullets are nigh useless against mythos creatures.  I've seen them do it, even gawked in disbelief at some of the stats myself - it's not a bug, it's a feature. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />DMs love big bads as well, that's why the Archdevils and Demon Lords are so popular, and why books of god stats sell for no practical reason... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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